In recent years, in order to maintain social stability, promote further growth of the domestic economic market, and improve loopholes in the law, the Chinese government has embarked on a huge policy of "sweeping away organized crime and eliminating evil" in China. It can be seen that since the implementation of this policy, many areas that have been deeply affected by the underworld have been basically restored, and the lives of the people have been stabilized.
Around the world, many countries around the world are also affected by underworld and violent terrorist organizations. Although these countries do not use thunderous means to remove these social tumors as China does, they will more or less take action to combat the arrogance of the underworld.
However, there is only Japan in the world, which is "unique", which not only condones the development of the underworld to a certain extent, but also has the shadow of the underworld behind the Japanese Internet celebrity industry.
Japan is the only country in the world that recognizes the legality of the mafia, allowing the mafia to operate within the scope of the law, and every year the government publishes the number of registered gangsters and the number of people involved in the gangs. According to official figures, as of eight years ago, there were 60,000 gang members in Japan, while the total population of Japan that year was 127 million, or about one-thousandth of the total population of Japan.
In addition, in terms of policy, the government will also intentionally or unintentionally open a green channel for the underworld, which has promoted the growth and development of the underworld to a certain extent. Why did the Japanese government promote the development of the black society to such a huge scale? This has a lot to do with the origins of the Japanese underworld.
Taking the Yamaguchi Group, Japan's largest underworld organization, for example, since Japan reformed and abolished the samurai class, many samurai not only lost the focus of their lives, but also could not find their own living space in society, so they became idle people wandering at the bottom of society.
Among them, some of the aspiring samurai began to look for popular industries that the government could not reach, or manage, such as casinos, brothels, smuggling on the docks, etc., and used them to develop their own forces. The Yamaguchi Group, which was born in 1915, also developed in this way.
Haruyoshi Yamaguchi, the first-generation leader born of the fishermen, leaned back against the docks and successfully earned funds for the operation of the organization through extortion and smuggling, and laid the foundation for the future development of the Yamaguchi group. Subsequently, under the leadership of the second generation leader Yamaguchi Noboru, the Yamaguchi group entered a golden period of rapid development.
Since Japan was in the midst of a militarist regime, World War II, and post-war recovery during the second generation of leadership, the Yamaguchi group took the opportunity to extend its influence into the retail, performing arts, security, and political circles, and became one of the top underworld organizations in Japan at that time.
After World War II, in order to prevent the resurgence of Japanese militarism, the victorious powers disbanded the Japanese army and abolished the military organization, so when foreign expatriates and gangs harmed Japanese society and affected Japan's recovery and development, the Japanese government had no reasonable reason and appropriate way to stop it.
In order to safeguard their own interests and ensure the stable operation of industries within their sphere of influence, the Yamaguchi group and other triad groups adopted the method of countering violence to prevent foreign expatriates from causing further harm to Japanese society and the people.
Because the underworld does not have the nature of an army, but at the same time has the basic ability to protect Japanese society, the government and the people invisibly support their development, indirectly promoting the further growth of the underworld.
For a long time since then, triad organizations have cooperated with government organizations to act as civilian police, helping the police to deal with some of the more difficult cases of gang competition, murder, picking quarrels and provoking troubles, etc.; when major natural disasters occur in the country, triad organizations will also provide corresponding material and medical assistance to the people...
It can be said that the underworld has played a very crucial role in the stable development of Japanese society and the smooth operation of the domestic economy to a certain extent.
Although the Japanese underworld can promote the development of society, their harm to society is far greater than their help to society. Due to the large number of gangs in Japan and the complexity of the situation, the slightest conflict of interest will lead to fires and incidents of different scales, and if you do not pay attention, it will pose a threat to the lives and safety of civilians.
In the 1950s, the United States re-established its military, the Self-Defense Forces, in Japan because of the needs of the Korean War. Although such an army does not have a strategic offensive nature, it is more than enough to maintain domestic society and protect the lives and property of the people.
In addition, with the development of time, the Japanese government has made great efforts to improve the combat effectiveness of the Self-Defense Forces, and has built it into a well-equipped, well-trained, and highly effective armed force. It can be said that in this process of development, triad organizations have gradually lost the support of the government and no longer have the basic function of protecting the people.
In addition, with the development of Japan's economy and the rise of its international status, Japan has gradually participated in global governance and shouldered important international responsibilities, as exemplified by the G20 Leaders' Summit held in Japan two years ago.
In order not to affect Japan's international image, ensure the safety of the lives of leaders and representative teams of countries in Japan, retain the original foreign-funded enterprises in China and attract new foreign capital to enter the country, and increase the volume of Japan's export trade, the Japanese government has suppressed most triad organizations and gradually narrowed the scope of their activities in China.
It can be seen that in order to prevent the underworld from becoming an obstacle to Japan's development path, although the government still supports their development and growth in policy, in fact, in many aspects, the gang organization does not have a large living space, and the members of the participating organizations are also decreasing year by year, and this series of changes are promoting the transformation of the underworld to a new development direction.
0.1 Internal reforms
First, the underworld reformed its own image and behavior. In order to improve their living space, the mafia organization had to change the name of the organization and the names of its members to get rid of the police surveillance. At the same time, the organization distributes newspapers and other publications like a normal company, disseminates positive energy and maintains social ideas and other information, and creates a good organizational image.
In fact, these so-called superficial kung fu are hidden mysteries. Just as wartime telegraphs use passwords, important information is communicated to each member of the organization in a similar way. This not only avoids police raids, but also protects some of the registered wanted criminals, the best members of the organization.
10 years ago, the Japanese government issued the "Regulations on the Exclusion of Violent Groups", which explicitly prohibited the catering industry from receiving triad members, and subsequently greatly reduced the number of restaurants that can receive triads in society, which to a large extent curbed the situation of gangster members entering the society and causing damage.
In order to improve the situation, organizations have also reformed their internal institutions. Still taking the Yamaguchi group as an example, in order to meet the daily needs of the members and improve the passive situation due to the policy, an independent canteen was established within the organization to provide food for the members throughout the day.
According to the data, although the yamaguchi group canteen looks relatively simple and the dishes are relatively simple, these foods have been uniformly screened by the members of the group, coupled with the superb cooking skills of the kitchen chefs, even the simplest dishes can become the delicacies in their mouths.
0.2 The underworld figure behind the net red industry
Restricting the behavior of members and improving internal institutions can indeed play a role in improving the survival and development of the underworld, but external reforms are needed to truly get rid of the control of the police and return to the glory days of the past. As mentioned earlier, most of the gang organizations have developed in a variety of ways, such as smashing and looting, fraud, smuggling, and controlling popular industries.
With the improvement of Japan's rule of law system, these once-reliant ways of subsistence have become a thing of the past, and underworld organizations have to find new ways of production to raise revenues and maintain basic operations within the organization. In this case, the industry of selling milk tea has entered the eyes of members of the underworld.
Because the bubble tea shop has a variety of different flavors, provides a variety of more novel snacks, can greatly satisfy the young people's curiosity and appetite, but also can promote the feelings between couples and friends, so it has become one of the current Internet celebrity industries in Japan.
Seeing this development prospect, most gangster organizations have participated in the milk tea shops that have chosen good locations in their spheres of influence to start operating. It can be seen that a number of different milk tea shops have sprung up in the bustling areas of many regions of Japan in a short period of time, and on the surface, each milk tea shop is a competitive relationship with each other, and in fact it all belongs to the jurisdiction of the same underworld.
Because the milk tea shop has a small storefront, a small labor force, and the underworld organization can obtain fresh and superior raw materials through different channels, and the operating cost is small, the profit obtained by the milk tea shop is much higher than any previous job.
In addition, when every Japanese citizen goes to a black milk tea shop for consumption, it is equivalent to invisibly paying a protection fee to the underworld and supporting their growth and development.
Of course, milk tea shops are only the tip of the iceberg of the transformation and development of the underworld, in other places that the police still can't reach or are allowed by law, such as online gambling, bars, restaurants, etc., the underworld organizations can find their own living space and gain a firm foothold, turning the original illegal profiteering into Chia Tai Guangming's profits, still affecting Japan's economic and social development like the old society.
It can be seen that whether in the past or now, Japan's underworld organizations have always been able to see those Internet celebrity industries and incorporate these industries into their sphere of influence.
In the near future, if the Japanese government does not improve the recognition of the legitimacy of the underworld, and only gives the underworld some painless blows, then they will still rely on those industries to develop and grow themselves, and their impact on society and the economy will also exist for a long time.